Apparently problems delivering enough drinking water are global. Cyprus is experiencing shortages, and water tanked in from Greece to help is “smelly”:
Drought-stricken Cyprus is unable to distribute a shipment of water from Greece directly to households because it smells bad, authorities said Wednesday.
I am not sure why the normal system of desalinization is incapable of meeting the demand, but reservoir levels were stated to be extremely low – around 7%.
In Australia, a report warned that the lower reaches of the Murray-Darling river system needs more water, now, or it risks irreparable harm to the viability of the ecosystem:
But scientists have warned the federal government that the unique ecology of the lower reaches will be irreversibly damaged if there is not sufficient water flow by October — a deadline unlikely to be met by the plan, by Rudd’s own admission.
This river basin, which is responsible for a large (40ish%) of food production, “faced a 92 percent decline in irrigated agricultural production” by the end of the century. That is a rather bleak assessment.
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